In the nonfiction novel Night written by Elie Wiesel, Elie has many reasons for writing this book. Elie’s reasons for writing about this extremely difficult event is to explain the challenges he had to go through while looking straight into the face of death. One reason Elie Wiesel wrote this book is so he “would not go mad, or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness...that had erupted in the conscience of mankind.” Another reason why he wrote it is to leave behind memories so to prevent history from repeating itself. A third reason is to simply preserve the record of the event because many denied the existence of the awful occurrence. Even though he himself doesn’t believe that his so called “destiny” was to write this intriguing book, Elie felt as if he needed to give some meaning to his survival. A fourth reason was to protect the meaning that Elie set to paper an experience in which nothing made any sense at all. A fifth reason was because he wanted people to at least understand the importance what happened during this disgusting time period. To sum it up, the reasons behind writing this book are strongly supported, because without them, one would not have a way of knowing about the true perspective of a survivor and the horror of living through the Holocaust.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels? He was Hitler's Minister of Propaganda and one of the most important and influential people in Nazi Germany.
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible. film, Reich Chamber of Commerce which introduced censorship, and Hitler sold cheap radios so that everybody could hear his speeches.
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen?
Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass” (reference to the many broken windows that had been destroyed during riots against Jews), is the Jewish riots that burned/destroyed 267 synagogues, vandalized or looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, and killed at least 91 Jewish people. It happened on November 9-10, 1938
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference? many representations were at the Wannsee Conference (1) to inform and secure support from government ministries and other interested agencies relevant to the implementation of the “Final Solution,” and (2) to disclose to the participants that Hitler himself had tasked Heydrich and the RSHA with coordinating the operation.
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Roma (Gypsies), people with disablitlies, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homesexuals
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
-Roma(Gypsies): arbitrary internment, forced labor, and mass murder.
-disablities: Euthanasia program was a murder program which killed mentally and physically disabled patients living in institutional settings.
-Poles: murdered thousands and the men were required to perform forced labor.
-Soviet prisoners: murdered
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.ghettos were city districts (often enclosed) in which the Germans concentrated the municipal and sometimes regional Jewish population and forced them to live under miserable conditions. Ghettos isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. German-occupied and annexed Oland and the soviet union was were they were located.
HYPERLINK "__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059__" __http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059__
The Camps There were two kinds of camps: labor camps and death/extermination camps. What is the difference between the two? labor camps where thousands of prisoners died from exhaustion , starvation, and exposure. death camps was where they were killed immediately.
Ghettos
Ghettos
Compact and temporary
Transporting, captivating and hoping
Like a cage for animals and as fake as an impersonator
Lying
Inside barbed wire for the unwanted
Table of Contents
Elizabeth M. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie’s Reasons for putting it on Paper
In the nonfiction novel Night written by Elie Wiesel, Elie has many reasons for writing this book. Elie’s reasons for writing about this extremely difficult event is to explain the challenges he had to go through while looking straight into the face of death. One reason Elie Wiesel wrote this book is so he “would not go mad, or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness...that had erupted in the conscience of mankind.” Another reason why he wrote it is to leave behind memories so to prevent history from repeating itself. A third reason is to simply preserve the record of the event because many denied the existence of the awful occurrence. Even though he himself doesn’t believe that his so called “destiny” was to write this intriguing book, Elie felt as if he needed to give some meaning to his survival. A fourth reason was to protect the meaning that Elie set to paper an experience in which nothing made any sense at all. A fifth reason was because he wanted people to at least understand the importance what happened during this disgusting time period. To sum it up, the reasons behind writing this book are strongly supported, because without them, one would not have a way of knowing about the true perspective of a survivor and the horror of living through the Holocaust.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Who is Joseph Goebbels? He was Hitler's Minister of Propaganda and one of the most important and influential people in Nazi Germany.
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible. film, Reich Chamber of Commerce which introduced censorship, and Hitler sold cheap radios so that everybody could hear his speeches.
HYPERLINK "__http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm__" __http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm__
Wannsee Conference
What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen?
Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass” (reference to the many broken windows that had been destroyed during riots against Jews), is the Jewish riots that burned/destroyed 267 synagogues, vandalized or looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, and killed at least 91 Jewish people. It happened on November 9-10, 1938
HYPERLINK "__http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/__" __http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/__
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference? many representations were at the Wannsee Conference (1) to inform and secure support from government ministries and other interested agencies relevant to the implementation of the “Final Solution,” and (2) to disclose to the participants that Hitler himself had tasked Heydrich and the RSHA with coordinating the operation.
What was the Final Solution?
The "**__Final Solution__**" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews.
HYPERLINK "__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477__" __http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477__
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Roma (Gypsies), people with disablitlies, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homesexuals
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
-Roma(Gypsies): arbitrary internment, forced labor, and mass murder.
-disablities: Euthanasia program was a murder program which killed mentally and physically disabled patients living in institutional settings.
-Poles: murdered thousands and the men were required to perform forced labor.
-Soviet prisoners: murdered
HYPERLINK "__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457__" __http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457__
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.ghettos were city districts (often enclosed) in which the Germans concentrated the municipal and sometimes regional Jewish population and forced them to live under miserable conditions. Ghettos isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. German-occupied and annexed Oland and the soviet union was were they were located.
HYPERLINK "__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059__" __http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059__
What was life like in the ghettos?
starvations, chronic shortages, severe winter weather, unheated houses, epidemics, etc. very hard livng conditions.
HYPERLINK "__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445__" __http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445__
There were two kinds of camps: labor camps and death/extermination camps. What is the difference between the two? labor camps where thousands of prisoners died from exhaustion , starvation, and exposure. death camps was where they were killed immediately.
HYPERLINK "__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144__" __http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144__
What were the conditions? brutal and harsh.
What different types of extermination were performed? gas chambers, weaponry killing
HYPERLINK "__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145__" __http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145__
Who liberated the camps? Soviets
HYPERLINK "__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131__" __http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131__
What did Hitler do near the end of the war? committed suicide
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? 24 What did they represent? represented a cross-section of German diplomatic, ecomonic, political, and military leadership. men who committed unspeakable crimes though
HYPERLINK "__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143__" __http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143__
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense? “following orders”
HYPERLINK "__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142__" __http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142__
Assignment 3: Images of Night
GhettosGhettos
Compact and temporary
Transporting, captivating and hoping
Like a cage for animals and as fake as an impersonator
Lying
Inside barbed wire for the unwanted